- June 20, 2009
- 12:26 AM
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who wants to be immortal anyway?
by Greg Fish in weird things
If you’ve ever read more than a few entries from The Daily Galaxy, you’ll notice a strange skew towards a sort of scientific sensationalism. Stories based on very limited and specific research are expanded into linchpins for brand new disciplines on the verge of getting us halfway across the galaxy in no time at all [...]... Read more »
Curran, S., Wu, X., Riedel, C., & Ruvkun, G. (2009) A soma-to-germline transformation in long-lived Caenorhabditis elegans mutants. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature08106
- June 16, 2009
- 11:59 PM
- 495 views
Sexing up the soma: Long-lived mutants express germ line genes in somatic tissues
by ouroboros in Ouroboros: Research in the biology of aging
We are all descendents of an unbroken line of cell divisions, dating back to the last common ancestor of all life on Earth. At some point, long after our lineage had acquired features like nuclei and mitochondria, a less distant ancestor stumbled on a major innovation: it grew a body, bringing with it the advantages [...]... Read more »
Curran, S., Wu, X., Riedel, C., & Ruvkun, G. (2009) A soma-to-germline transformation in long-lived Caenorhabditis elegans mutants. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature08106
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